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But an emu farm in NSW came to the rescue, sending her six eggs, two of which have already been hidden in Edward's pen.

"He'll go to them, realise what they are and he should sit on them," she said.

"Once he sits on those two eggs we get the other four out of the fridge and then we'll put them underneath him and he'll stay on them until they hatch.

"We've got a 60 per cent chance two or three will hatch, if not we'll be having a really big omelette."

Mrs Arriston acquired Edward as a 50th birthday present seven years ago, when he was only two days old - a moment she described as "love at first sight".

"He would sit beside my bed and as soon as it became daylight that was it, he would never leave my side, he'd follow me everywhere."

Asked is she was bemused by all the media attention, Mrs Arriston said the lonely plight of Edward, who is covered in shaggy brown feathers and almost 2m tall, was reminiscent of the world-wide struggle to find love.

Now Edward just needs to find the eggs, sit on them for 56 days, hope one is a lovely lady ... and then wait 18 months for her to mature.